NZX is at its core a markets business operating eqwity, debt, derivatives and energy markets. To support de devewopment of its core markets, dey provide trading, cwearing, settwement, depository and data services. To ensure dey are weww connected to New Zeawand investors, NZX owns Smartshares, New Zeawand's onwy issuer of Exchange Traded Funds, and KiwiSaver provider Superwife.[1]

At de end of June 2018, de NZX had a totaw of 301 wisted securities wif a combined market capitawisation of NZD$164.5 biwwion, uh-hah-hah-hah.[2]

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NZX began wife as a number of regionaw stock exchanges during de gowd rush of de 1870s. Brokers’ Associations started in Dunedin Brokers’ Association in 1867, Otago in 1868, Auckwand in 1872[3] and Wewwington in 1882. The Dunedin Association became a Stock Exchange in 1893, Christchurch gained an exchange in 1900.[4] Auckwand, Christchurch, Dunedin, Thames and Wewwington formed de Stock Association of New Zeawand in 1915, joined by Taranaki in 1916, Invercargiww in 1920 and Gisborne in 1922.[5] Merger was investigated from 1976, Christchurch and Invercargiww merged in 1978 and a nationaw exchange was formed in 1983.[6]

In 1974 dese regionaw exchanges were amawgamated to form one nationaw stock exchange, de New Zeawand Stock Exchange (NZSE).

On 24 June 1991, NZSE impwemented a computerised trading system, and abowished de open outcry market. This computerised system was repwaced wif de FASTER trading system in September 1999.

On 16 October 2002 de Member Firms of de New Zeawand Stock Exchange voted in favour of demutuawisation, and on 31 December 2002, NZSE became a wimited wiabiwity company. On 30 May 2003, New Zeawand Stock Exchange Limited formawwy changed its name to New Zeawand Exchange Limited, trading as NZX, and on 3 June 2003 wisted its own securities on its main eqwity market.

The NZX Centre buiwding in Wewwington was originawwy constructed in 1907 for de C&A Odwin Timber Company, and is one of de few surviving industriaw buiwdings in de Edwardian stywe.[7]

In December 2002, de New Zeawand Stock Exchange, as it was den known, became a wisted company. It officiawwy changed its name to de New Zeawand Exchange Limited around six monds water and now trades as NZX.

In 2009, NZX made a number of acqwisitions in de ruraw sector, incwuding a Feiwding-based pubwications business and de Cwear Grain Exchange in Mewbourne.

In May 2012 Tim Bennett repwaced Mark Wewdon as NZX's CEO, returning from Singapore to take up de position, uh-hah-hah-hah.

In October 2016 Tim Bennett announced dat he wouwd step down from his position as CEO on 31 December 2016. NZX's Head of Markets, Mark Peterson, stepped in as interim CEO on January 1, 2017, becoming CEO on a permanent basis from Apriw 2017.[8]

An operator and reguwator of securities and derivatives markets and provider of trading, post-trade and data services for securities and derivatives, as weww as de provider of a centraw securities depository. NZX is de onwy registered securities exchange in New Zeawand, and is awso an audorised futures exchange. Its whowwy owned subsidiary, New Zeawand Cwearing and Depository Corporation, is de operator of a designated settwement system under Part 5 of de Reserve Bank of New Zeawand Act 1989.

A provider of passive funds management products drough de Smartshares famiwy of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and a provider of superannuation, KiwiSaver, and investment products drough SuperLife, acqwired in 2015.

Market operator for New Zeawand's whowesawe ewectricity market, under contract from de Ewectricity Audority, and de Fonterra Sharehowders’ Market, under contract from Fonterra.